Art: Inside & Out

Selden Rodman has made a, host of both friends and enemies in Manhattan
always impassioned, sometimes shrill art world. What excites both
camps is Critic Rodman's controversial habit of asking big questions
about art and then offering plain answers in book form. Rodman's The
Eye of Man (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955) asked whether artists should not
"communicate spiritual truth," and replied with an emphatic yes. Now
Rodman is deep in a new book, The Insiders, which asks whether artists
should not paint what they feel in a recognizable fashion for all to
understand. Again he gives the unfashionable answer: "Yes."